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Misfortune Plagues 1973-74 Newman Cage Season As Comets Finish In Bottom Half Of lllowaHermes, McCue Lead Comets In Scoring, Boards And InjuriesttyII VI Del AM.F5~rnBCurette Sports Staffremember Newman - dW henNewman head coach• hr* .ughout'. he game as th«*\ hat*Chuck R*’sonberry reflects backlied the Rams and 'hem - entersuits of his 1975-74 cageScott Williams wilh r* *:it ;»••- lt;•,*.-u- must invariably won-at least until there were threei? was he did to bringminutes to play. At that point theupon bisteam such a torrentialComets were ahead 5-1-16 andir of misfortune and bad'her. a.* it turned out. N-wrmnma*le one of the greatestDid a black cat cross his pathmistakes they could have madewasn't looking? Did hein the young season theywalk und*•r a ladder one day w henstalled.he was 1eisy contemplating of-As 'Uggested abo\»- thefensive strategy? or. perhaps aComets were having guardformer s*udent with supernaturalproblem* and one of the problem*powers cast a spell on him andRosenberry had was finding anis teambecause Rosenberryguard that I'ouid han-ii-- *he badflunked ,him or her in scienceFventually he did, but at th* timeMaybe itwhs something he said*.f th** Riverdale game he didn ithat off*ended somebody “upand as a result his Comets con-there.t.nuaily turned the Ball overWhat-ever the reason,without scoring a point, and th.whatever■ the source, the resultsrampaging Rams scored andry effective as theseor*-; again until at the final burNew main Comets struggled/or. Riveradle was ahead. 5.V5.:an injury riddled, ill*The wav things turned outfortunedhey\ ever had sincewith Riverdale winning ,!.*• crovRosenbtut;iat fir«t game against them wassix yearsago.the most frustrating. It s! ouldThishas been a veryhave been our ballgam, . R-..- nfrustrateig season with the wavberry refle.-ted.things hiive gone and the wayInjuriesthing tureed out t: berr-Newman began a full .dateadmittede-mference action f- mr g *!.A! th*f ime of this writingChristmas break and w.th tf:-Newm.i-ha.* ['laved 2lt;i of theirchanges Rosenberry had - -• i*21 garnet- scheduled and hold aoptimism run high on the i • n *re* ord iif6-14. ,4-9 in the lllowaCorifenmicei, primarily becauseat key positions struck like i»K n.le it looked as if Rosenningberry '•li1 finally found the winThe Monday • ■ ‘ re -hening comibination, someone gtMorrison game star forward Matthurt or sick. or something, andHermes sprained his ankle andhe had toi start all over again.was out for at least the weekend.Dunn)i the first part of theWith Hermes out. the full weighthe Cornets hail guardof the New man att ack fell on theproblem!s. They searched andshoulders of the second half oft h*for the right mm'•ar front lin*- duo, Frank McCuebinationol' starters and sub-The biirdeti proved to be toost itute*that would make themuch as both w eekend op-team goar 1 it u a*,ft until thei-oii. - • -. Morrison and lt;:••rlitvChris*. ii!ii break that Rosenk* yed defensively on Mlt; ( ’ue ar-oberry foiand the answer to histhe Comets fell to both.problemwhen he shifted TimA week later Hermes was backWarkinsfrom forward to guardand the Comets retur*i*-d to theirand tookBarney Webb off the500 cup winning two of th*-ir n.-xibench am;.! -put him at centerfour games.m::: :i \A w m * \ lt;01//. 7.s -This year Newman Comet cotters included from i**tf to right, (front row* Tom Allen, Tie: Warkins VT.it* Hermes. Barney Webb. Frank McCue Mark Wiker Fat Lenhard, (back row Dave Glassburn. .h*hn Conn«*e!v. Jim Mudrielston, Torn Murphv Ken Frit' Den 'Aii! 2;ni Yerbo.d Kerrv Kent Randy Sitter and?;hs. ubem lost Hermes W. hr. and Wart WBter.faraf lend t maybe * wo game- With mi; .. strongbench to fill in. th.-C art* tsof a fight against North Scott The next night however, Her-h«-»ttb\ enough piay a g...! gam*' against Morrison.hot W*-bb and Wiker w* re not and as a result the Comet# fell to the Mustangs Newman lost (heir 11th gameat Fulton.rep incline on skwhen'they -v ent mt o double overtime 11\ .it th** Irish of StMary’w n«lSt.Mary’« l***i throughout thatgame.oftt ]n by *.' nuch as 19 or11 pointsand i' seemed thattimeNew man was or, th*vergeof aerr- -back, 'he IrishwouldStiff'en and run their leadback to nFinally with 2:(#i leftored s* Mary - HP2 b«fore th* peri'il was over As the fourth period le-g-in the Irish lead was 54-02 and for the nexttied evenly until with :40 left in the gam*- Hern e-, mad*- a lay upKeg.nation time ended - iat v. av forcing an overtime pemd.Newman jumped out quickly to a four-point lead and were ahead by two with 02 left, unfortunate*.' • Mary's managed to tie the score once more on a lay ui- with bl left forcing stillBruce Dutchoff Seated center is manager Hon Conklin The Comets compiled a t 9 conference and ft 14 overall record in their first 20 games on .he regular season slt; hedule Their biggest upset of the year was Jan 11 wh*-n the Comets con vincingly heat the then eighth ranked Fulton Steamers. 65*54The lt;omct- played less than 500 bail this -ear hut lid I a.. if the team had stayed healthy ail season long Newman played a total'd • -igh' games without the -■•rviei ' of either H* ru. * or Mlt;-( uc or both and lost all eight ( d th«• remaining 12 game** the Comets did play 09 ball wim m,r*ix and losing' 'he s irn*-If we could have had a • season. 1 would have b.o-ri happy. Ros.-nherey .aidNe\t Week 'hf lt;‘s .. ... ..One* we finish ar regular - hedule. all the pages urn* out the game book and we start ,i new season. Rosenberry said Woi • 1 rungs have gone- year when that new -••a.'on begin'. i* might b»- ad .i-ahle fur Rosenberry to hang .( tiers* s 1stp* it: th«- 1’M’ker riM.m,■ .t then ag.ur with the luck the | »s i aw bt en having the •-in.* w tied probably tail off the■ ,;i and lar d .r- on* of the star t. r- (e .* puling b.in out for the1974 Newmcn Varsity RosterNameFrank Met Matt Hern Tim Wark Barn* W. Mark We.Tom Allen5 11 Itili6Kandy Sitter5-11 170SrfTom Murphy♦v*» 1 15Jr.(JJohn Brackemesern 190.Ir(’K**n Frit.--5-11 l*if*Jr.1D«-r',-s OA5.itF
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Sterling Rock Falls Daily Gazette
Sterling Rock Falls, Illinois, US
Sat, Feb 23, 1974
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